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5 Future Trends in Music

Rebecca Smart Bakken
7 min readMay 8, 2020

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While the global pandemic is a heartbreaking period of history that’s seeing many businesses go bust and the world we know is rapidly changing by the minute. With any great disaster comes great change, the coronavirus lockdown is no exception.

The music events industry has taken one of the biggest hits. Artists are unable to tour and the long list of jobs that are affected by this as a knock on effect is huge. The industry is going to rapidly evolve to future proof itself in an effort to avoid the losses we’re currently facing.

I’ve rounded up 5 future trends that are making themselves seen already, so musicians can begin to build a strategy that can keep them ticking, whatever the weather.

GAMING

While the crossover between gaming and music is nothing new, there are some exciting advances that are bridging the two even closer. And with gaming set to climb from $152 billion to $196 billion by 2022, many of the world’s biggest (and smallest) companies are trying to cash in on a piece of the pie.

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Rebecca Smart Bakken
Rebecca Smart Bakken

Written by Rebecca Smart Bakken

Founder of SMART Music Agency. Driving change in the new music industry through innovative marketing strategies. Specialising in content marketing for musicians

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